Are you preparing for spring or winter?
The arrival of spring means warm sunlight, blooming flowers, and the sounds of birds and laughter in the air. It is the best of times when you should go out and enjoy nature’s offerings at their finest.
Your house needs to be woken from the slumber of winter and the doors and windows opened to let fresh air and sunlight in. Before you can do all that, however, you need to prepare to clean your house top to bottom to remove it of all the grime and dust of winter.
A closed and stuffy house which does not get much air or sunlight during the winter means most homes will need substantive sprucing up. This is what is known as spring cleaning. It is a hassle, but a necessary one.
It is best to get your spring cleaning preparation done well before time so that you don’t have to do a mad scramble come spring. What does spring cleaning preparation entail, you ask? Here’s a list of things that you should focus on to prepare for spring cleaning better:
- Mental Preparation
Arguably the most instrumental part of spring cleaning preparation is mentally fortifying your own self. Spring cleaning is a long and grueling task which can take up to a week. It will help if you get into the proper frame of mind instead of panicking or dreading at the thought of doing it.
- Make a List
Next, make the list of tasks to be done and the supplies required to carry them out. This can give you focus and more tangible objectives which can be broken down into parts. This will provide you with specific goals and targets that will be a lot easier to achieve. After all, organization and control are the first steps in taking hold of an otherwise difficult or cumbersome task.
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- Stock Up
To fight a battle, you need your ammunition and so is the case for tackling spring cleaning preparation. Stock up on all the required essentials and items you made a list of well before in advance. This is to ensure you don’t face stock shortage with everyone looking to buy the same things and you don’t have to put off any cleaning task because a cleaning supply finished.
- Reduce Clutter
During winter, all the warm winter clothes and blankets and shawls come out. These items and other winter items can make for quite some clutter as well as store up dust.
It is imperative that with the dawn of spring, you clean your warm clothes and blankets and promptly store them away. This will make for less stuffy rooms which have more space to breathe, get the airflow going, and are easier to clean.
- Clear Schedule Beforehand
It is best to go about spring cleaning in one go with intermittent breaks in between. You should clear out your schedule well before time so you have some empty days or a week to get it all done.
That means no parties, no guests, no relatives staying over, no children’s friends or any other house activity. That can only prolong spring cleaning.
Conclusion
If everything that we mentioned above sounds like a pain and a chore to prepare for—which, to be fair, it is—then you can avail the services of professional housekeeping instead.
Molly Maid provides the best of skilled cleaning staff who will give your house a complete overhaul and have it shining spotless. Avail our occasional cleaning service with only a call at 800-654-9647 and we’ll leave your house looking fresh and clean for spring—all without having to move a finger of your own.
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